Write console output to file

Question

Hi!
I am trying to get powershell to write the results of a query to a txt file. It creates the text file, but its blank everytime
heres my code:
Clear-Host
$a = Get-Content "d:\server_names2.txt"
foreach ($server in $a)
foreach ($Service in (Get-Service -ComputerName $server -name "SQLBrowser"))
Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -ComputerName $server | where {($_.name -like "*SQLBrowser*")
$mode = select StartMode}
Write-host $server $Service.startmode $mode | Out-File c:\test.txt
any ideas what im fdoing wrong?
Thanks,
Zoe

Answer 1

You can simplify that code quite a bit.  Try this:
$serverList = Get-Content "D:\server_names2.txt"
Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -ComputerName $serverList -Filter 'Name LIKE "%SQLBrowser%"' |
Select-Object @{ Name = 'ComputerName'; Expression = { $_.__SERVER } }, StartMode |
Out-File c:\test.txt
On a side note, Out-File will display the data just as it would be shown at the console (in this case, in a table). You may prefer something like Export-Csv, if you intend to read this data later with a program or another script.